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- Does Judge Walker Have a Conflict? - February 9, 2010
- In the circle of lawyers and judges I know, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker is a giant. He is a brilliant jurist, legal eagles will tell you, who has insightful, and...
- Holder's Premature Mirandization of Suspect - February 7, 2010
- Republicans have been hitting the Obama administration for Attorney General Eric Holder's too-quick decision to Mirandize accused Christmas bomber Umar Farouk...
- Poizner Unhinged, Whitman Unavailable - February 4, 2010
- At first, it seemed like a bonehead move. On Monday morning, the campaign for Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner's bid for the governor's office sent out an e-mail...
- A Results-Free Cell Phone Law - February 2, 2010
- Last week, an insurance industry report found that bans on using hand-held cell-phones while driving in California, New York, Washington, D.C. and Connecticut did not...
- So Much Wasted Green for Climate Change Talks - January 31, 2010
- It was bad enough last month watching Washington politicians merrily flying off to the U.N. climate change Conference of Parties in Copenhagen (or COP-15 for short),...
- If Obama Fails, It Won't Be GOP's Fault - January 28, 2010
- It all looked so easy in August 2008, when Sen. Barack Obama spoke before the Democratic National Convention in Denver. The Democrats were going to win in November,...
- Pentagon Clueless on Fort Hood Shootings - January 26, 2010
- Political correctness is alive in the Pentagon. Witness "Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort Hood," a Department of Defense report released last week on the Nov. 5...
- Federal Court Has Become the New Feelings Forum - January 24, 2010
- Forget the law. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has allowed the trial over a challenge to overturn Proposition 8 -- the 2008 California ballot initiative that...
- The Bay State's Voter Revolt - January 21, 2010
- There are two ways to look at Republican Scott Brown's pivotal victory in the Senate race to represent Massachusetts. The voters looked at runaway spending in Washington...
- And Then There Were None - January 17, 2010
- Former U.S. Rep. Tom Campbell announced Thursday that he is dropping out of the California GOP gubernatorial primary and instead will run against Democratic Sen. Barbara...
- Berkeley High's Next Science Experiment - January 14, 2010
- If liberal politics and good intentions helped all students learn, then Berkeley High School should be an exemplar to all California. Yet, according to its governance...
- How Harry Got His Groove Back - January 12, 2010
- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid spent the weekend trying to finesse the news that he told "Game Change" authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann in 2008 that he...
- Obama at War with Al-Qaida - January 10, 2010
- In the days that followed a foiled attempt to blow up Northwest Flight 253, the Obama White House clearly thought that it could bluff its way past the near disaster. Two...
- Schwarzenegger -- What Might've Been - January 7, 2010
- Mention Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger -- you need only say his first name -- and many Californians respond with a long sigh, then with words like "squander" or "waste" or...
- Another Entitlement That's Unsustainable - January 5, 2010
- Inside the House and Senate health care bills lurks a ticking time bomb -- a new federal entitlement, under the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS)...
- Yes, Someone Has To Pay for Health Care - December 31, 2009
- Most Americans already have health care insurance, but many middle-class Americans are afraid of losing what they have. The fear is especially profound when a person can...
- Warning, Satire Alert: Liberal Take on Terror! - December 29, 2009
- Gosh darn, I feel great to live in a country that gives full constitutional rights to a foreign national who, on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, was tackled by...
- The Year of Living in Everybody's Face - December 24, 2009
- It was the year of the Octomom, the balloon boy and the White House party crashers. The year of "Jon & Kate Plus 8" -- minus Jon. The year Tiger Woods ran into a...
- A Cool Wind Braces the Hot-Air Crowd - December 23, 2009
- For years, global warming alarmists have pointed to every drought and heat wave as proof that global warming was a real environmental threat. They had few qualms about...
- Stop Me Before I Call Again - December 20, 2009
- Gavin Newsom is at it again. The San Francisco mayor's latest foray into annoying nanny statism is a proposal, reported in The Chronicle last week, to require the city's...
- DINOs and the Next Endangered Species - December 17, 2009
- The most endangered species in Washington may well be the moderate. Consider the long knives pointed at the heart of Sen. Joe Lieberman. The Connecticut...
- Electoral Dysfunction from Barbara Boxer - December 15, 2009
- The U.S. Senate defeated an amendment last week to restrict taxpayer funding of abortions under Obamacare. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., voted against the measure,...
- Declaring War on Another "War President" - December 6, 2009
- As soon as President Obama had finished his West Point speech in which he pledged to send 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, conservative pundits started poking at...
- Huckabee Handed Out Pardons Like Candy - December 3, 2009
- There is no need to tiptoe gingerly around this topic: Maurice Clemmons, who was shot and killed as authorities tried to apprehend him for the shooting deaths of four...
- The Inquisition of Global Warming - December 1, 2009
- This just in from the Times of London: After the leak of highly embarrassing e-mail messages from the University of East Anglia's influential Climatic Research Unit, CRU...
- Sarah Palin: Going Rogue, Getting Even - November 29, 2009
- "Going Rogue: An American Life" acquaints the reader with author Sarah Palin's life and work before she was plucked from her Little House on the Tundra to serve as John...
- The Politics of the Pardon - November 25, 2009
- On Wednesday, President Obama will issue the White House's standard hokey pardon of a Thanksgiving turkey. It goes with the job. That's good news for the lucky turkey,...
- In New York, Flanked by Lawyers - November 22, 2009
- "I'm not scared of what (self-professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed) would say at trial," Attorney General Eric Holder told the Senate Judiciary Committee as...
- Brown Ensnared in His Own Tapegate Trap - November 19, 2009
- A recent Gallup poll found that 55 percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of the mass media. Hence, many readers may have felt little outrage when they read a few...
- Scots Outraged Over Bomber's Release - November 15, 2009
- EDINBURGH -- Do not believe that Scotland was united behind Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill's decision to grant "compassionate" release to the terminally ill convicted...
- The Shrink and the Terrorist - November 10, 2009
- There have been two views on what happened last week when Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire on unarmed military colleagues at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 12 soldiers and...
- D.C.'s 'Failure To Launch' National Health Care Policy - November 8, 2009
- The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee health care bill includes a provision that would allow parents to keep their children as dependents on their...
- There Is No Honor; There's Only Killing - November 5, 2009
- The Council on American-Islamic Relations sent out its usual roundup Tuesday of news stories alleging the mistreatment of Muslims in America. There was a story critical...
- No Fireworks with Harmer, Garamendi - October 30, 2009
- No journalist who has followed Lt. Gov. John Garamendi over the years could be surprised at his answer to the final question at Monday night's debate at St. Mary's...
- License To Drive While Unlicensed - October 27, 2009
- Mayor Gavin Newsom's office has argued that San Francisco's "sanctuary city" policy protects undocumented immigrants who are otherwise law-abiding residents. But as The...
- The Long and the Short of Steve Poizner - October 26, 2009
- Why isn't Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner doing better in his bid for governor? On paper, Poizner is a solid contender. He's the only Republican elected to...
- The Real Flaw: Fox Is a No-Fawn Zone - October 22, 2009
- The Obama White House's war on Fox News heated up when President Obama appeared on five Sunday talk shows in September, but snubbed Fox's Chris Wallace. Then White House...
- Buying the Votes of Senior Citizens - October 20, 2009
- It's hard to instill confidence in the U.S. economy when Washington keeps finding new and creative ways to spend money it doesn't have. Take President Obama's proposal...
- Bipartisan Facade Can't Hide Health Plan's Flaws - October 18, 2009
- If the Democrats' health care package is so great, why are President Obama and Dem congressional leaders so hungry to share the credit for its passage with a...
- The Bay Area Bridge That Time Forgot - October 15, 2009
- On Oct. 17, 1989, the Loma Prieta earthquake brought down a chunk of the upper deck of the Oakland-Bay Bridge onto the lower deck. Anamafi Moala Kalushia, 23, of...